Every year, McDonald’s run their extreme popular McDonald’s Monopoly game. Every year, we take a crack at the run down to give you some information to help you beat the competition.

The game itself won’t start until September 20th but the 2011 rules are available, which means we can take a look at what’s new, what’s changed, and see if there’s anything we can do with it.

Pre-Promotion

Just like last year, there’s a six day pre-promotion period where you get a sweepstakes entry for registering on the site. Then, on October 3rd, they pull a name out of a hat and that person wins a cool ten grand ($10,000). Not a bad prize for doing something you’d be doing anyway – register for their site.

Possible Prizes

The site also has a list of prizes, which very closely matches the instant win prizes from last year. We can probably assume this list is for all the instant win prizes available in the 2011 game (what we don’t know is how many of each will be awarded):

How does this compare to last year? The lower prizes are roughly the same. You can assume, despite it not being listed, that McDonald’s food will be included. There are far more EA Sports related prizes, including higher end ones for trips and “lifetime of games.” Last year, the only EA Sports prize was a game.

At the high end, there are fewer straight dollar prizes (last year there were $10,000 and $25,000 cash prizes – they have returned for this year). There are way more trips, like London for the 2012 Olympics, McDonald’s All American Basketball Game, and the like. Finally, the cars this year are not as sexy as the Shelby GT500 available last year (the Z Coupe is nice, but it’s not a Shelby GT500) but there are more of them available. There are four Nissan Z Coupe’s available (the Official Rules don’t actually list the Nissan LEAF, so it may be a typo in the first page).

The Rare Pieces

According to the rules, here are the rare pieces of each set. As is customary, the rare piece is the one that is listed last when put in order alphabetically (Boardwalk is the exception):

Mediterranean Avenue – 1 in approx. 61,811

Vermont Avenue – 1 in approx. 206,036

Virginia Avenue – 1 in approx. 2,472,425

Tennessee Avenue – 1 in approx. 2,060,354

Kentucky Avenue – 1 in approx. 77,263,275

Short Line Railroad – 1 in approx. 77,263,275

Ventnor Avenue – 1 in approx. 103,017,700

Pennsylvania Avenue – 1 in approx. 309,053,100

Boardwalk – 1 in approx. 618,106,200

In case you’re wondering, the odds of winning the $10,000 in Powerball is 1 in 723,144.64. You get better odds to win a $38,210 car… so if you’re a gambler, you’re better off going after Boardwalk than Powerball.

Once we get closer to the actual game launch, I’ll put out our regularly scheduled McDonald Monopoly post with more details.

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90 Responses to “Sneak Peek: 2011 McDonald’s Monopoly Game Rules”

I got Park Place three times in a week. I think everyone gets that one. Since it says one million dollars on it, I plan to request that amount and state they should not say it is that amount if it is not.

I have every piece on the board except boardwalk. I’m only going for the million email me so that we can exchange numbers. Need board walk. Liljohngamer@yahoo.com. Also for those who believe that trade is against the rules. Yes, that’s true but no one is going to even know. Email me so we can talk. Looking for boardwalk.

i have all the stamps i tavel a lot and got them all. hers the deal im on the road everyday i dont have time or patients im only missing one of the railroads the b&o one ok so hers the deal best offer takes all of my hands and plz be realistic i dont have time to turn them in so i dont have time to play kiddie games besides i dont need the money i have my buissness i have about 3.5 mill of my hard earned money ok so best offer takes all

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